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I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

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The sisters-at-arms enjoy their life.

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I’m deep in the penciling mines for Seacritters which means I’m drawing a lot of stuff I find absolutely delightful but won’t have cause to share with the reading public for at least another calendar year. I DO NOT CARE FOR IT, so here is Mr. Slapdash challenging a potted plant to a duel.

(If you’re late to this party: Seacritters is a swashbuckling comic adventure series for fans of Redwall and Pirates of the Caribbean. It’s being written by Kate Milford and illustrated by me and published by Walker Books and when I finish it in eight bazillion years it’s gonna knock yer socks off. I’m posting more about it on Patreon if you like process porn and enabling a cartoonist to make a living wage.)

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this website is increasingly going down the shitter as it becomes more and more openly transparent that if you hold beliefs that go against the zeitgeist of the average white liberal fandom blogger you are just straight up at risk of having your entire account permanently nuked. the thinnest skinned people on the planet have made this place their home and would honestly rather there was not a single person outside of their exact demographic posting here if it meant they never had to see anything that caused them a single second of discomfort. digital redlining. and yet there is fucking nowhere else to post! so who knows what to do really

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The Color Trends for 2025

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Daci made it so I can use bluetooth to play music on the fancy stereo in the living room so now I'm listening to my long-ass christmas music playlist on THE NICE SPEAKERS

Man I've listened to music only via headphones or laptop speakers for like A DECADE, forgot what it was like to have this much bass

Which is being put to use to play a 1960's a cappella recording of Little Drummer Boy so it's being put to good use

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BREAKING: Matt Gaetz is threatening that if his sexual misconduct gets revealed, he’ll call out all the other pervert Republicans in Congress.

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BREAKING: Matt Gaetz is threatening that if his sexual misconduct gets revealed, he’ll call out all the other pervert Republicans in Congress.

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the modern specimen of a coelacanth that revealed they were not extinct was allegedly found by marjorie courtenay-latimer on dec 22nd, which may be timely for fishmas

By Fod, you're right ... we thought she was dead but she came back ...

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I am searching for a term that may not exist:

I have a husband

He has a brother, who is my brother-in-law

My brother-in-law has a wife. Now colloquially, she is my sister in law, but is there a distinction to indicate she is also my husband's sister-in-law and not his sister? Is she my sister-in-law-in-law? My sister twice removed?

This is not actually the term I'm after but it'll help.

My brother-in-law's wife has siblings. Who are they in relation to me? I see my sister-in-law-in-law's brother more than I see her, but is there a way to explain that he's family?

Now, the real term I'm after: my sister-in-law-in-law's brother has a daughter. Is she my niece? Second cousin some degree removed??

Like, kinship trees vary wildly by culture, but I feel like there might be terms for these by-marriage relatives from inheritance law or something?

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every winter solstice I am consumed with thoughts of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost...

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i’m also seeing a lot of young women terrified and posting tiktoks asking which birth control option they could get/which is safest and lowest risk. as someone who has worked a clinical role in women’s healthcare, the answer is unequivocal. the risks of every single contraceptive on the market currently are nothing compared to the risks of the healthiest pregnancy.

the anti-contraceptive fear mongering has been a conservative project for years. i would know, i lived project 2025 in my childhood community before it was put to pen. there are legitimate reasons to advocate and legislate for better birth control options in a political climate where the only alternative is not forced pregnancy. we will lose birth control in the next four years and women need to prepare for that reality now. right now, when women ask you these questions, the answer is not to diminish the risk of birth control nor to dismiss the benefits but to state very clearly what all research on women’s health shows. the risk of every single contraceptive on the market currently do not compare to the gravity of risk in even the healthiest pregnancy.

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I'm supposed to be cleaning my house so obviously instead I'm processing catnip to save seeds for next year. Problem: I forgot that this process makes the cats crazy just on contact high and all the good manners absolutely go away, and also turns my hands into bait.

She's not biting with force but sure is grabbing, which she knows she's not to do. Too high to think straight

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my god, they’ve reached the airport

with the power of aviation they can reach anywhere in the world